Program Manager, Utility Monitoring and Control Systems

Parsons; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking an experienced Utility Monitoring and Control Systems Program Manager to lead the UMCS MATOC portfolio. You will guide multidisciplinary teams, manage risk, and ensure disciplined execution across multiple task orders for complex facilities and infrastructure.

The role requires strong program leadership, financial acumen, and ability to translate customer requirements into reliable monitoring and control solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or related field.
• Fifteen or more years of progressively responsible experience in program management, project management, utility monitoring and controls, building automation, energy management, engineering, construction, operations, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, task orders, contracts, or programs.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, schedules, scope, risks, subcontractors, and customer relationships.
• Experience mentoring or developing project managers and professional staff.
• Strong leadership, decision-making, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead multiple concurrent task orders and balance competing priorities.
• Strong customer-engagement, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and relationship-management skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and oversight for the UMCS MATOC and active task orders.
• Establish consistent processes for task-order planning, execution, reporting, risk management, change management, and closeout.
• Lead, support, and develop project managers and multidisciplinary task-order teams.
• Monitor scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, safety, deliverables, and customer commitments across the task-order portfolio.
• Review financial performance, forecasts, labor utilization, funding, commitments, and projected margins.
• Identify and manage cost, schedule, contractual, technical, staffing, cybersecurity, and customer risks; establish and track corrective actions.
• Coordinate with contracts, procurement, subcontracts, finance, quality, safety, engineering, operations, and business development.
• Oversee the preparation, negotiation, and execution of task-order modifications, change orders, and other contractual actions.
• Support opportunity identification, bid/no-bid decisions, capture planning, proposal development, and follow-on business.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with customers, contracting personnel, subcontractors, suppliers, and teaming partners.
• Lead regular program reviews and ensure decisions and action items are assigned, tracked, and completed.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, performance feedback, and professional-development support to project managers and technical staff.
• Promote lessons learned, standard tools, and effective project-management practices across the UMCS MATOC.
• Provide company leadership with timely, accurate reporting on program performance, financial results, risks, opportunities, and required decisions.
• Perform other responsibilities associated with this position as appropriate.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Customer engagement

Risk management

Negotiation

Communication

Matrix management

Budgeting

Scheduling

Decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or related field

Job description

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking an experienced Utility Monitoring and Control Systems Program Manager to lead the execution and growth of the UMCS Multiple Award Task Order Contract. This is an opportunity to shape performance across a portfolio of task orders, guide multidisciplinary teams, strengthen customer relationships, and help deliver reliable monitoring and control solutions for complex facilities and infrastructure. The successful candidate will bring strong program leadership, financial and contract-management expertise, and the ability to translate customer requirements into disciplined execution. You will work across technical, operational, and corporate functions to manage risk, improve consistency, support new opportunities, and deliver successful outcomes across the task-order portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and oversight for the UMCS MATOC and active task orders.
• Establish consistent processes for task-order planning, execution, reporting, risk management, change management, and closeout.
• Lead, support, and develop project managers and multidisciplinary task-order teams.
• Monitor scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, safety, deliverables, and customer commitments across the task-order portfolio.
• Review financial performance, forecasts, labor utilization, funding, commitments, and projected margins.
• Identify and manage cost, schedule, contractual, technical, staffing, cybersecurity, and customer risks; establish and track corrective actions.
• Coordinate with contracts, procurement, subcontracts, finance, quality, safety, engineering, operations, and business development.
• Oversee the preparation, negotiation, and execution of task-order modifications, change orders, and other contractual actions.
• Support opportunity identification, bid/no-bid decisions, capture planning, proposal development, and follow-on business.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with customers, contracting personnel, subcontractors, suppliers, and teaming partners.
• Lead regular program reviews and ensure decisions and action items are assigned, tracked, and completed.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, performance feedback, and professional-development support to project managers and technical staff.
• Promote lessons learned, standard tools, and effective project-management practices across the UMCS MATOC.
• Provide company leadership with timely, accurate reporting on program performance, financial results, risks, opportunities, and required decisions.
• Perform other responsibilities associated with this position as appropriate.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, project management, or a related technical or business discipline.
• Fifteen or more years of progressively responsible experience in program management, project management, utility monitoring and controls, building automation, energy management, engineering, construction, operations, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, task orders, contracts, or programs.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, schedules, scope, risks, subcontractors, and customer relationships.
• Experience supporting systems integration, controls implementation, commissioning, operations, or sustainment is preferred.
• Experience mentoring or developing project managers and professional staff.
• Experience supporting business development, capture management, proposal development, or follow-on work is preferred.
• Strong leadership, decision-making, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated financial, commercial, and business-management acumen.
• Ability to lead multiple concurrent task orders and balance competing priorities.
• Strong customer-engagement, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and relationship-management skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills.
• Understanding of utility monitoring and control systems and related engineering, integration, installation, testing, commissioning, cybersecurity, operations, and sustainment activities.
• Knowledge of applicable industry practices, regulations, cybersecurity requirements, and contract requirements.
• Ability to identify business-development opportunities and contribute to capture and proposal activities.
• Ability to lead effectively in a matrixed organization.
• Ability to meet applicable company project-management certification requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional certification or equivalent is a plus.
• OEM certifications a plus.
• Must complete and pass Parsons' project